3 Economics, Scandinavian Journal of Economics, Small Business Economics, MIT Press, John Wiley & sons, Inc., The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy. VII Examiner of dissertations and evaluator of applications Doctoral dissertations: University of Vaasa (2014, in Economics, pre-examiner), University of Eastern Finland (2014, in Business economics, pre-examiner and official opponent), Aalto University School of Economics (2011; in Quantitative methods, pre-examiner), University of Tampere (2009, in Economics, preexaminer), Swedish School of Economics [Hanken] (2008, in Economics, preexaminer and official opponent), Helsinki School of Economics (2006, in Finance, pre-examiner and official opponent), University of Helsinki (2006, in Economics, pre-examiner). Licentiate s theses: University of Helsinki (2010, in Economics, examiner,), Helsinki School of Economics (2003, in Economics, pre-examiner and examiner). Applications: Swedish School of Economics [Hanken] (2014, 2010, External examiner of applications for university lecturer / assistant professor), University of Vaasa (External examiner of applications for professorship, 2011), Helsinki School of Economics (External examiner of docent application, 2008), Institute of Governmental Affairs, University of California at Davis (External examiner of application, Autumn, 2004). Evaluator of the applications submitted to The Foundations Professor Pool (2011-present). Other: Participated in the nomination of the members for the Finnish Economic Policy Council (2014). VIII Ph.D. supervision Doctoral dissertations, completed: Terhi Maczulskij (2013, co-supervisor), Ilkka Ylhäinen (2013). Doctoral dissertations, on-going: Jaakko Sääskilahti (cosupervisor), Liisa Väisänen, Jussi Heikkilä (co-supervisor), Matthias Deschryvere. IX Conference organization * Inequality and Health, 60th Anniversary Congress of Yrjö Jahnsson Foundation, (in collaboration with Amy Finkelstein, David Autor and Bengt Holmström). * 37 th Annual Conference of the European Association for the Research in Industrial Economics (EARIE), Member of the Scientific Committee, * Conference on Venture capital, entrepreneurship and public policy, organized by the Research Institute of the Finnish Economy and the Finnish Association for Research in Industrial Organization, Helsinki (organizer). X International conference and seminar participation (selected) - Annual Conference of the European Economic Association (EEA), 2014 Toulouse (presentation). 3

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